Martha, you had to be hurt when Mariana testified against you at your trial. But writing this book and exposing the intimacies of your longstanding friendship so publicly, was a particularly bitter form of betrayal.

While the ramifications for the health care package have rightly been the talk of the town, there are other parts of Obama's plan that will also suffer due to Scott Brown's win. One of the biggies is the American Clean Energy And Security Act.